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Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Overall: Outstanding read more about inspection ratings

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Background to this inspection

Updated 30 August 2018

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides local services in the surrounding area including Kingston, Richmond, Roehampton, Putney and East Elmbridge. The trust provides services to approximately 295,101 people and provides a full range of diagnostic and treatment services, including emergency care, surgery and maternity services. The trust was the first acute trust in south west London to gain Foundation Trust status when they were authorised in May 2013.

The trust’s hospital main site is Kingston Hospital, but also run several outpatients’ clinics in the community, including in Raynes Park, Surbiton, Queen Mary's Roehampton and Teddington. Kingston Hospital has 371 beds and provides all eight acute core services: urgent and emergency care; medical care; surgery; critical care; services for children and young people; maternity; outpatients and end of life care. In addition, the trust provides the additional services of gynaecology and diagnostic imaging.

The number of staff employed by the trust as of March 2018 was 2,805. Kingston Hospital is in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and Kingston Clinical Commissioning Group commissions its services.

Overall inspection

Outstanding

Updated 30 August 2018

Our rating of the trust improved. We rated it as outstanding because:

  • At location level, we rated safe, effective, responsive and well-led as good and caring as outstanding. We rated all of the trust’s eight services as good. In rating the trust, we took into account the current ratings of the five services not inspected this time.

  • We rated well-led for the trust overall as outstanding.

Our full Inspection report summarising what we found and the supporting Evidence appendix containing detailed evidence and data about the trust is available on our website www.cqc.org.uk/provider/RAX/reports